Vidya Balan Confirms the Indira Gandhi Biopic Will Be a Web Series

Since there is too much material to pack into a 2 hour film, the Indira Gandhi biopic will be a webseries.

Vidya Balan will play Indira Gandhi in the web series.

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Vidya Balan has now confirmed that the Indira Gandhi biopic she is working on will be a web series and not a film. It was first announced in January this year that journalist Sagarika Ghose’s book Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister would be made into a film featuring Vidya Balan in the role of the late PM. However now, Vidya has clarified that the book will be adapted into a web series.

Talking to Mid-Day, Vidya said that, "There is too much material for it be made into a film. So, we decided to turn it into a web series. We don't know how many seasons we will be allotting to it. We are in the process of putting together a team.”

What we also got to know is that Ronnie Screwvala will be producing the series and the project is still in the research stage with no official dates as to when the production will begin.

When asked if the team will approach the Gandhi family for permission to make the web series, Vidya confidently stated that they don’t need permissions since the web series is “based on a book and we have the rights to it.”

(Source: Mid-Day)